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Wikimedia Simplifies By Moving To Ubuntu

Posted by kdawson on from the all-eggs-one-basket dept.

David Gerard writes "Wikimedia, the organization that runs Wikipedia and associated sites, has moved its server infrastructure entirely to Ubuntu 8.04 from a hodge-podge of Ubuntu, Red Hat, and various Fedora versions. 400 servers were involved and the project has been going on for 2 years. (There's also a small amount of OpenSolaris on the backend. All open source!)"

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  1. Re:did not know that.... by jedidiah · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I did not know that ubuntu was a player in the server market.

    THIS is what makes it "news that matters".

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  2. Re:did not know that.... by brion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, the only difference between "Ubuntu Server Edition" and the "regular" Desktop version is which packages get installed by default.

    That's one of the things we like about Ubuntu -- the 'supported' version (should you want a support contract, or even just security updates for a longer period!) isn't a totally separate distro from what folks use at home.

    When Red Hat split "Red Hat Linux" into "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" (supported, but for $ only) and "Fedora" (free, fast-changing, no long-term security updates), they lost the benefit that techs would likely be running the same version of the software on their desktops and servers.

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